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A bureaucratic procedure and a paper gives you all the answers? You see it pained on a page so it has to be real, right? And the reality, only a distraction? Good luck. It's not fun to go any further in this direction.

Nope, false parallels. Gaza was not a viable state and not a valid example. The whole Gaza narrative may have been invented to demonstrate the futility of the two state solution, while quietly continuing encroaching occupation of the West bank, the preconceived answer. Want to try it for real, the answer is known: two states in the 1967 borders with mutual recognition and guarantees of security. Anything else is a distraction. When and if there's a viable Palestinian state absolutely, full agreement. International community cannot always fix internal divisions in a country (Libya) but it can certainly go a long way. This is not the status quo now and the reason is known very well too. At this time, Israeli society, not just the governments is not ready to pursue a two state solution in good faith. The resulting tensions create a breeding environment for the terrorists. Brutal response raises the heat of hatred. I can't see any good prospects in this direction.

Only the facts, numbers. In 1989 (roughly a generation back), population: Sweden: 8.5 million; 2023: 10.6 million Finland: 5 million; 2023: 5.6 million. Ontario, 1989: 10.1 million; 2023: 15.6 million. Can one grow the population of a European country by over a half, in a single generation while maintaining, and improving the standards of services and broad prosperity? Doesn't this explain, like everything we see around? How is possible that in a G7 (supposedly) democracy, the obvious question: why are we doing this? is never answered and never even asked? Astounding. Mind boggling. And bending: lhow is this possible? Who asked for this massive social experiment? What was the purpose? How was it supposed to work and is it working as intended? Nope. No answer. Some terrible secret, anyone? Is Canada really an independent democratic country in this century? Or some social experiment run by the entrenched elites out of curiosity? laziness? eternal goodness? who wants to guess?

Entirely agree here. An essential part of the settlement would be international security guarantee to Israel, up to and including boots on the ground, within its internationally recognized borders.

When (and if) Israel and Palestine both have statehood with viable, mutually agreed and internationally recognized borders, the situation could not be worse than it is now. Any act of aggression would be clear and cause a strong response from the international community as it should. It would be a clear violation of the agreed settlement, no ambiguity. The status quo is nothing like that. Gaza alone is not viable. West Bank is under occupation. Palestinian part of Jerusalem is being cut and annexed bite by bite. Referring to the status quo as a basis for future possibilities couldn't be fair and objective. Such a basis exists though: the two-state solution within internationally recognized borders.

So the government cannot solve this issue. There wouldn't be many takers in the Europes and Australias so the rescue has to come from Umbabwes of the world. And now look at this: if the governments cannot assure quality of the resources it controls, right here how could it do that with arrivals from the most godforsaken places on the planet? How would they know even who wrote the paper? This is the most incredible idea I'm hearing. Trump with his just elect me and all your problems will be fixed instantly sounds about as plausible or a bit more. We're screwed either way. And why not?

So another government screw up you have to eat Joe and be happy, because its the normal order of public business. Public. Whatever we do (or don't) just eat it and be happy. Where do you think that story works great? In the first world? Or in Mexico?

There may be a better time and place to talk about this issue but it would have been in the past (long one). The last and possibly the first too genuine attempt from Israel to achieve a just and lasting peace ended with assassination of Rabin. Israelis are repeatedly electing parties that show little interests in stopping the encroaching annexation. Israel routinely "annexed" lands in the occupied territories including Jerusalem. Under international law one cannot do that. This what Putin has done in Ukraine and nobody recognizes that, with the only difference that Ukraine is a member state of the UN and Palestine, not. These are the facts. The political establishment in Israel does not want lasting two-state solution; and has factually done everything to undermine every opportunity and hope of it. This in no way trivializes or exonerates obvious crimes against humanity committed by Palestinian terrorists. But absolutely this is a factual and objective background and framework of the current situation. Right-wing Israeli nationalists and Palestinian extremists exist and thrive in a symbiosis of mutual hate. They need each other and there's one thing they hate more than the other: a hope of just and lasting settlement. The democracies of the West should recognize that and get off the fence of moral ambiguity. Terrorism is not acceptable and neither is encroaching occupation. Terrorism needs to be stopped, but states cannot be rewarded, continuously and unconditionally for repeated violations of the international law. It will only extend the hatred into the perpetuity. And in that case, there cannot be any good surprises.

So you have to bring in more folk with totally unknown qualifications from seriously unknown places like Umbabwe that can train their doctors and hope it will work, anyhow? That's the best the system can do, and it's exactly what it has been doing. Will it, forget improving, even sustain the condition at the level say two decades back? You can sure pray and hope, but is there a grain of rational reason to expect that? You can also look around. You are repeating the bureaucrats word to word: no we can't do sane things here here's a reason and more, so we have to try it the other way and see what happens! You sure see that Joe? Now, just sign here and here.

But the inevitable result is: next to nothing works as it should, in a G7 (supposedly) country. In Holland, they built a completely new road, under an existing bridge, without closing it, in two weeks. And it wasn't even the capital. The first subway opened in 1863, almost two centuries back.. yet we're having surprises and revelations and huge project delays and budget overruns, constructing it in the national capital. In a decade or two we'll simply forget how the things are done in this century. G7 only in the name, another beaver tail.

The next step is we accept it as normal. And then? The local municipality decided to fix some structure in a popular nature path. The path is closed from August to next spring (the earliest). In four months so far managed to install a new deck - a two day work. Last year construction of 20 m retaining wall took more than a year. Am I seeing things or it's already heading straight there, to the third world reality? From occasional issues, to widespread to pretty much nothing works as it should - in a G7 country.

There's a good solution to this eternal dilemma: West recognizes Israel and Palestine in the internationally agreed borders of 1967 or something. It will guarantee security of Israel only within these borders, and never unconditionally whatever the next hawkish Israeli government chooses to desire next. Hamas is declared a terrorist organization that is only a pronouncement of a fact. Internationally recognized framework for peace is mutual recognition and renouncement of violence within the recognized borders, possibly with mutually agreed modifications.

Just before the Covid I chatted regularly with a recent grad in education. She was a supply teacher with no permanent schedule, lower pay no benefits etc and couldn't find a permanent job for years after graduating. We talked here about permanent and chronic shortage of nurses yet many couldn't find stable positions with stable pay, job security and benefits. Question: how does this make any freaking sense? We have been throwing uncounted billions at the thing since the last romanow commission yet a quarter of Ontarians will have no family doctor in a year or so. Why are we paying for something that does not exist? Why do we need "more foreign-trained anything, including teachers and medical professionals" and I'm quoting someone boasting a great achievement if our professionals here and now are struggling to find good jobs? I have an easy answer: the system doesn't know what it's doing. It runs around randomly pulls here punches there and see what happens... any good yet, lets try again enthusiastically just need more of your cash. I'm all for discussing other possibilities. If you can you come up with more plausible ones.

Federal bureaucracy in the chaos mode. No quick fixes I'm afraid, as the entropy has run its course. Third world is the next destination.

Is there any rationale for the preference of oil over other types of fuel or just feeding their natural base?

Even now he continues to boldfacedly peddle his blatant lie about "Rigged and Stolen [sic]" election. This is the level of African and Latin American dictators. Nothing less. Yes, here. History shows and tells us very clearly that compromises with grotesque lies of this kind come only at the expense of an absolute loss of all morality and principles. Republican party can reject the pathological clown liar; or sink to shameful depths with him, as a cast iron anchor. Their choice. No: there will be no excuses or explanations. Way past that.

Seems to be the required attribute of a dedicated Republican these days. Oh oh.

Was difficult to imagine that a founding party of democracy would now welcome undermining the elections third-world dictator style. Oh well, the entropy always runs its course guessing.

In a working, functional democracy it has to be daily reality. We should have a bill to this extent. This may be the only way to assure one of the sane outcomes: a) You get a quality service, or b) You don't pay for a service that is below reasonable standard or does not exist. One in four Ontarians will have no family doctor by 2026. The situation is similar across the country. Shortages of nurses and hospital places are common. Is it public universal healthcare or some kind of a lottery? Does a citizen applying for a job in the government for which he is paying out of their pocket have to pull a lucky ticket to even be considered? Governments are responsible for delivering results, not drawing scribbles, promising and smiling on camera. Only they forgot. It's been close to generation after the Romanow report (2002) and see what it fixed? Carbon charge is not a "service". One cannot pay service tax for a service that doesn't exist. Citizens are not obligated to pay for non existent services, or those that do not satisfy a minimal reasonable standard. Discuss?

Scary but entirely predictable. One has to a) think and b) work for freedoms to exist, be established and maintained. Freedoms do not appear out of pipe dreaming and thin smoke. Freedoms do not appear out of nowhere because something was written in a dusty book or someone dressed into a fancy robe. Romans knew that and tested on their own backs and a$$es, that was 2000 years back. And dinosaurs too, millions. No, there will be no cute and cuddly surprises here!

Why couldn't moderate Republicans find a compromise with Democrats and support Emmer? Isolating the lying mob with intelligent, bipartisan effort seems to be the only rational way forward. One cannot be afraid of what happens if Trump is nominated forever; the nomination would be a disaster for the Republican party and preventing it is the only chance GOP could retain sanity and a place in the democracy.

Liar, liar. Nothing works without it, eh? “The defendant brought these weapons to the immediate vicinity of the U.S. Capitol Building, and traveled to the area with two firearms on his person. The amount of weapons suggests an intent to provide them to others, as no one person could reasonably use so many at once,” they added. "Another man, Christopher Alberts of Maryland, was arrested on the Capitol grounds as police were clearing the building when an officer noticed that he was carrying a pistol". The gun charges that have emerged in court over the past week are only a fraction of the more than 70 cases that federal prosecutors have filed in the wake of the riot. And Justice Department officials have suggested that many more are likely to be charged in the coming days as their investigation unfolds.

It doesn't have to. But it quite likely will, if we keep putting all the emphasis on the power in any form; private capital trillions or public politicians ability to promote their interests and agendas contrary to the interests of the society. Then we may very well end up in a Well's kind of dystopia. Humans have the genes of great apes who exist in herd societies with a strong authoritarian leader. It can be a daunting task to beat the genes, but if we couldn't find a way to maintain broad interest and shared prosperity in the society, not excluding but in parallel to traditional models, we may very well be writing the conclusion to our chapter with our own hands.

Just can't stop lying? Nothing works without it, no? Police seized arms from capitol rioters.

Not if we can't figure out other ways of producing it, but handing the lion's share to the capitalist. I'm not blaming or calling for a massive redistribution of wealth no, nothing like socialism that begins with a great fairy tale and ends in a disaster. But why couldn't we, very obviously, do it any other way? If capitalism had to compete for talented and motivated professional with an alternative framework where one shares ownership, is motivated to produce best results because it's paying right into their pocket while doing meaningful work they like wouldn't it be a productive competition with a better outcome for all or at least a great majority?